Luther on Faith and Love: Christ and the Law in the 1535 Galatians Commentary

by Sun-young Kim

Overview

There has been a distinct tendency in modern scholarship to underestimate Luther’s teaching on love by overemphasizing his teaching on justification. Calling this tendency into question, this volume advances the thesis that Luther’s teaching on faith and love operates as the overriding thematic pair in the dynamics of Christ and the law—structurally and conceptually undergirding the 1535 Galatians commentary. The research situates itself in the landscape of Luther scholarship via a special attention to Finnish Luther scholars and scholarship.

The project argues that in the discussion of proper righteousness and holiness, Luther’s redefined love emerges in harmony with faith. His views on Christian freedom, the Christ-given law of love, the twofold way of fulfilling the law, and his Christological premises demonstrate the logical rationale for reintroducing love. This love, designated as a fruit of faith, is incarnated in three major relations: love toward God, toward others, and toward self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451489767
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Series:	Emerging Scholars
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sun-young Kim is assistant professor of theology at the Graduate School of Practical Theology in South Korea. She received her MDiv and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. Luther on Faith and Love (2014) is a revision of her dissertation, done under the leadership of George Hunsinger and Scott Hendrix. She is an author of Martin Luther: A Theologian of Faith and Love, published in Korean (2014).
Sun-young Kim received her Ph.D. in 2008 from Princeton Theological Seminary, in Princeton, New Jersey. This project is a revision of her dissertation, done under the leadership of George Hunsinger and Scott Hendrix.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations xi

Introduction 1

1 Research on Faith and Love in Luther 21

2 Faith and Love in the Dimension of Passive Righteousness and Holiness 63

3 Faith: Sole Means of Grasping Christ 117

4 Faith and Love in the Dimension of Active Righteousness and Holiness 149

5 Love: Means of Authenticating Faith 203

Conclusion 247

Bibliography 269

Index of Subjects 291

Index of Names 305

Index of Biblical References 309